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Resources: Group night activity

If you're planning your term's programme, want to try something new to try one group night, or planning activities for a camp, this is the section to browse. All the activities listed below have been contributed by Woodcraft Folk volunteers and staff, and should fit into an hour or an hour and a half session. Most of them don't need much in the way of equipment. Some of them may have attached worksheets that you'll need to print out and take along to your session.

If you try something and have ideas for adaptations or improvements, just log in and then post a comment at the foot of that activity's page.

A game exploring war and the arms trade, run by Angus at CoCamp.

In this online shelf is a collection of group night activities you can read online or download. Some are session plans for a one-off group night, some are books containing loads of different activities.

Our Times is the new campaign from young people around Woodcraft Folk, who want to give other young people a platform to be heard on social and political issues including war. The aim is to enable young people to educate each other on the issues they care about, and enable wider society to hear and respect young people's views.

We've put together a range of activities to get your Venturer group thinking about society and what they care about most in it. Download the PDF below.

It's really useul to reflect on how an activity went, what impact it had on the participants and how it could be even better next time. In the download below are lots of different activities you can use to evaluate a session or an event. They're all fun, participatory and can be mixed and matched to draw out the sorts of reflections you want.

Ealing Venturers spotted an issue they wanted to change in their community, and took action. Download the PDF below to find out how they addressed the relationships between adults and young people in their borough, which they felt needed improving.

If your Woodcraft group would like to start a project led by young people, that aims to make change in your community, why not make it into an Action Project and apply for funding and support from Woodcraft Folk?

This is a game where two teams - the villagers and the werewolves - use teamwork to develop stratagies and outwit each other. The werewolves (who keep their identity secret – and can lie if suspected) try to 'kill' all of the villagers (one each ‘night’), before the villagers can work out who the werewolves are and imprison or 'kill' them (during the ‘daytime’). The game alternates between days and nights until the last person or a team succeeds. The villagers' aim is to have a villager as the last person standing; the werewolves' aim is that a werewolf survives to the end.

The game works best with 10-20 people plus a narrator who facilitates the game and tells the story. It can be played just sitting in a circle or around a campfire and usually takes about 30 minutes or so.

Below is a big pack of exciting activities for Venturer groups. They've been created as tasters of the centres that will be running workshops at Venturer Camp 2013, but you can do them just for fun too. The theme of VCamp 2013 is A Midsummer Night's Dream, so look out for ideas of transformation, relationships and the natural world cropping up in the activities...